The area of Ocean Shores is Washington’s best-kept secret. At least, it is if you believe their advertising. However, if you’re a Seattle resident that’s looking for the nearest bit of beach it soon becomes apparent that everyone and their dogs are probably headed to Ocean Shores at the same time you are. Despite the …
Whether you’re looking to get out of Seattle and experience nature, kayak with whales, or explore from Olympia your destination is the same: the Puget Sound. The Puget Sound has been drawing paddlers in for (literally) hundreds of years. These days this means that there are plenty of places on the Puget Sound where you …
Echo Beach is one of those quiet, lesser-known spots along the Oregon Coast that you could easily drive past without ever realizing it’s there. Tucked just south of Devil’s Punchbowl in Otter Rock, Echo Beach isn’t really marked on any official signs. And yet, it’s a local favorite. The kind of place surfers, tidepoolers, and …
Despite living near the Oregon Coast for years, I’ve never exactly been what you’d call an expert on the ocean—or the creatures that live in it. Sure, I love walking down the beach. But whenever my parents visit, they seem to assume that just by living near the ocean, I’ve absorbed some kind of honorary …
Despite growing up right next to the beach in Custer, Washington my wife could just never get on board with seafood. And, if she wasn’t about to eat the delicious local salmon and crab you can bet that when my daughters and I started getting into foraging she wasn’t about to start slurping down seaweed …
My wife and I like people, we really do. But we’re not shopping for a 5-acre property so we can fill our yard with more guests. Instead, we plan vacations to get away from our house and people who know where we live. Despite its popularity, the Oregon coast is one of our favorite places …
On our last trip to the Oregon Coast, we woke up at 4:30 a.m. to be at the Devil’s Punchbowl at low tide. We had never been there before but figured we’d have enough time to figure out the directions we found online. It turns out that 2 hours wasn’t enough time. We did make …